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Avic
18-06-2007, 06:46 PM
At what age is a single, young hand raised harris so imprinted on some one that it's to late to breed from it you get my drift??




Alf
18-06-2007, 06:52 PM
Depending on how much interaction it’s had with humans this could vary.
Imprinting goes on longer than just pre flight and there are so many stages . Alf.

CanadaManada
18-06-2007, 07:03 PM
The Coulsons in the U.S. are saying that the dual-imprinted Harris is a nutbag when it comes to natural pairing, and is as likely as not to see the other HH as food, or competition for food. The birds have to be introduced to eachother, and bowed out for months on end, and even this may not prevent disaster.
I don't know how late is too late, but it was too late for mine, before she was picked up from the breeder's. She's a creche-rear/imprint. Thinks somebody wants to steal her food. Took her 6 months to stop mantling in front of me. She's loving her some men. Fights her own reflection like it's a banshee come to take her away. If I put a male with her, she'll have it dead and plucked before he's got a name.